Forum: Bryce

Subject: need a good splash/ripple water tutorial Help!!

Roch222 opened this issue on Nov 17, 2002 · 13 posts

Roch222 posted Sun, 17 November 2002 at 12:49 AM

does anyone know of an "alive" link to a tut. to make a splash and ripple in the water when something hits it??

many thanks

roch222

ttops posted Sun, 17 November 2002 at 3:24 AM

and,

ttops posted Sun, 17 November 2002 at 3:24 AM

you should have a ripple.

ttops posted Sun, 17 November 2002 at 3:28 AM

The same technique should also apply to creating a splash. You could also use an object for the splash affect. Hope it helps, TT.

ttops posted Sun, 17 November 2002 at 3:30 AM

This is the image that I used to create this.

ttops posted Sun, 17 November 2002 at 9:09 AM

Just had a thought, did you mean an animation sequence?

ttops posted Sun, 17 November 2002 at 10:41 AM

After rendering the full avi it should look like this;

ttops posted Sun, 17 November 2002 at 10:41 AM

TT.

Roch222 posted Sun, 17 November 2002 at 6:07 PM

wow - your so kind to help me like this - I actually can animate the ripple but cant get it to look realistic with the terrain method - i WAS ON THE RIGHT TRACK DOING LIKE YOU SAID ABOVE, BUT IT LOOKS TOO "PERFECT" YA KNOW HOW DID YOUR COME OUT SO WATERY/SLOSHY LOOKING? ROCH222

ttops posted Sun, 17 November 2002 at 6:33 PM

I selected 512-ultra fine resolution in the terrain editor. The water material was Caribbean resort.

ttops posted Sun, 17 November 2002 at 6:35 PM

Also used soften tool on the image after applying it to the terrain.

EricofSD posted Sun, 17 November 2002 at 9:04 PM

Attached Link: http://www.castironflamingo.com/tutorial/pte/index.html

PTE

Zhann posted Tue, 19 November 2002 at 2:29 AM

Attached Link: http://petersharpe.com/Tutorials.htm

There are couple og water tuts here as well...

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